Edit your photos in an original way with Glitch Lab

There are all kinds of funny filters on Instagram, but sometimes you want a little more of a certain filter. For example, Light Leak is very cool, or Mixed Signal, but sometimes that effect is just not quite in the right place. If it’s a photo, then you’d probably be better off going for Glitch Lab, an app that makes it easy to give your photos that distorted effect exactly to taste.

Really free to use

Photo editing apps are often free to download, but turn out to offer very little for free once you open the app. Glitch Lab does not. There is quite a small number of filters that are only for pro users, which allows you to get a lot out of this app as a free user.

What can the Glitch Lab app do?

Glitch Lab actually does exactly what the name says: you experiment with adding a ‘glitch’ to your photo. In short, you give your photos a very artistic edge, or a very faded party-like effect. The idea is that there is a kind of old television layer over your photo, which you can then manipulate yourself by dragging and pinching. An example:

Your own style on social media

With so many different filters on social media, it is sometimes difficult to create a coherent whole and to make yourself recognizable. An app like Glitch Lab can help you with that: once you’ve found an effect that you like, you can choose to always apply it – to a greater or lesser extent – to your photos. For example, the prism effect is very cool: it gives a JJ Abrams-like lens flare without being annoying. At least, you can still make it very annoying yourself by dragging the effect differently on your photo.

A big advantage of this app is that you can install it and use it right away. No account is required, it’s just a very simple way to edit your photos. This allows you to try the app for a while and if you don’t like it, remove it with the push of a button. You’ll probably have some fun experimenting, because you can add all kinds of effects, colors and even objects to your photo. For example, you can display an old-fashioned handycam date or a blue block. Text is not an option, but of course you can still over it on social media.

Download Glitch Lab

The Glitch Lab app is free to download, but a Pro account costs 8.49 euros once for 63 extra effects.

Get the Glitch Lab app on Google Play here

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